AR-Sen: Bill Halter gains More ground in New Polling

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Wednesday April 14, 2010 · 4:06 PM PDT

2010/04/14 · 16:06

Here we are with about three weeks before the primary election here in Arkansas and a new poll by Talk Business shows that Bill Halter has gained enormous ground.

In the past weeks Senator Blanche Lincoln's campaign is still running a very negative campaign while charging that Halter is actually the one that is running the negative campaign. He is not and Senator Lincoln knows this, so why is she running such a negative campaign against him. The polling shows why.

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According to the poll conducted by Talk Business, Halter has narrowed the gap significantly. He now trails Lincoln by 7 points 31-38% respectively. With the margin of error at +/- 3 this means at best he is now only behind by 4 at worst he still trails by double digits.

The most telling part of the polling is that a third candidate, D.C. Morrison (just a note I have no idea who this man is and a quick search on him only resulted in a story on Arkansas' THV) is running at 10%. The interesting point in this poll is that the undecided people are still at 20% which is still pretty high with only 3 weeks left.

When looking at the breakdown at the poll some more interesting things are occurring. When asked if of the undecided voters who they were leaning to 12% said Halter, Lincoln and Morrison both garnered 10%. 68% however still need more information. So this race is anything but over.

With a fairly conservative candidate actually polling at 10% this is detrimental to Blanche Lincoln. But at their current levels if you split the undecided people 10 for Lincoln 10 for Halter it would lead to a run-off.

It is very important at this point in the game to get the word out on Halter. I would say at this late point in the game leave Lincoln out of the conversation and just focus on Halter's strong points.

The poll can be found here

The breakdown can be found here

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